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Did you miss the National Startup Competition 2018 Award Show? No problem, relive Tommy Ahlers’ keynote and learn more about the overall winner, VulCur MedTech, right here: By Keyvan Bamdej Last Friday, June 22nd 2018, Venture Cup Denmark hosted yet another National Startup Competition Award Show together with its long-time event-sponsor, IDA, [...]

Venture Cup is proud to announce the launch of our new Nordic HealthTech Talents Program in collaboration with the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The aim of the program is to identify and elevate the best upcoming HealthTech solutions in the Nordics. The program will focus on both business development, personal leadership and on establishing the [...]

PLINTHIT creates base systems for any kind of vertical objects PLINTHIT won the Product & Devices category at the National Startup Competition 2017 with their revolutionary parasol base, that uses a patented locking system which makes it possible to tightly fit any parasol size. The development of our parasol base was motivated by a dissatisfaction [...]

Maersk partners up with Venture Cup Denmark to target university startups We are excited to announce that we have partnered up with Maersk and that we will start a collaboration with them in order to find new and innovative ideas in the Transportation & Logistics sector. Who is Maersk? Maersk is the world’s largest [...]

For the last three years Founder and CEO of the start-up Harba, Christian Elkrog, has been receiving good advices from a broad array of mentors. Now, he is the one mentoring. By Keyvan Bamdej, Project Manager for Mentor Program A lot has happened since 2015 when Christian Elkrog founded his start-up company Harba that [...]

Penstable plan to Change The World One Pension At A Time Penstable is a FinTech startup specialized in sustainability and impact investments in the pension sector. We are building a robo-advisor exclusively built on sustainability investments for the pension sector. Penstable’s fresh, but solid business idea went down big at Venture [...]

Human Shojaee steps down as CEO of Venture Cup. Human Shojaee, who has been the CEO of Venture Cup since June 2013, steps down as CEO of Venture Cup. Morten Ugelvig Andersen, former National Manager of Venture Cup, has been appointed as the new interim CEO. Venture Cup is the Danish universities' cross-disciplinary association [...]

The beginning of 2018 means kicking off with the first startup competition of the year for university students, Venture Cup Idea Competition. The competition was fierce and 25 crazy, innovative and cool ideas were chosen from among hundreds of students. They competed within the five categories, Service Innovation, GreenTech, Product & Devices, HealthTech and [...]

Particle 3D uses medical technology to revolutionize healthcare What if hospitals would start 3D-printing bones? Particle 3D come with a solution aiming to cure cancer patients and people with bone injuries. This business idea came about as a result of working 12 years with bone tissue engineering and seeing unrealistic solutions being promoted for clinical [...]

Limelight Music has proved they are ready to take the world by storm What if new artists could get their music discovered easier? Limelight Music will make it easier for musicians and listeners to find each other. Our algorithm automatically pairs them based on the listener’s music taste. The goal of the Limelight [...]

About Venture Cup!

Venture Cup is a world-leading startup organization for university students. With chapters in Portugal, Iceland, China and Australia and more than 35 international partners (universities, incubators, accelerators), Venture Cup has a global network in which the mission is to identify and develop the talents and technology of tomorrow.
Venture Cup is an association of all eight Danish universities and has grown to have Scandinavia’s largest mentor program for university students with more than 300 mentors from the business community and a Founder’s Club via which relevant courses are offered to the founders in the Venture Cup network. We host two national competitions a year and the annual University Startup World Cup where teams from around the world are invited to spend one week in Copenhagen.